Of the many mouse species that inhabit North America, only a few actually find their way into homes. Here's how to recognize ...

California mice (Peromyscus californicus) are monogamous rodents that form lifelong relationships with a partner, sharing a home and parenting duties. But if the partner dies or disappears ...

Following at the rear is a track left by its long, thin tail. Scientifically known as Peromyscus sonoriensis, the western deer mouse weighs less than one ounce. Nonetheless, it is a mouse that roars.

There, he discovered the station was running on “mice” power. (click thumbnail)Fig. 1: A Coil Condo is an attractive home to Peromyscus leucopus.Peromyscus leucopus is the white-footed mouse, which ...

The mice, belonging to the genus Peromyscus, are often studied in biology fieldwork because they are so abundant. In such cases, captured animals may come in close contact with scientists.

These sperm hooks are found not only in animals in the Peromyscus genus, which Hook studies, but across almost all mice—which is why it’s so surprising that scientists don’t know what they’re for.

Figure 1: Natural variation in P. polionotus burrows. Burrow lengths were log-normalized before correlation and QTL analyses. We performed all statistical tests in the R statistical package 28 ...